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<p>I came from a far planet to learn the Earth's secrets. But I found other things, too -- and friends like Beth.</p><p>She stared at me thoughtfully. "You know, Marko, I'm a little afraid of you."</p><p>"Of me? But why?"</p><p>"Well," she hesitated, "it's hard to say. But when a man jumps into a pool and swims so much faster than one of our country's best swimmers, and then picks up that swimmer and throws him fifty feet without the slightest effort . . ."</p><p>That was where the trouble started.</p>